Example sentences of "[noun] and [noun] called [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | In December the joint forestry committee of Indonesia and Malaysia called for retaliatory action and said that it was " unfair " for Western environmentalists to blame Association of South East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) countries for global problems , and said that Indonesia and Malaysia had both taken steps " to sustain forest resources " . |
2 | Rain and Oliver called at the flat but the fingerprints man had still not been . |
3 | A petition signed by hundreds of people from as far afield as Darlington , Ashington and Durham called on the council to repair the lodge and install a cemetery keeper . |
4 | ND argued for more free-market economic policies and deep cuts in government spending , while Pasok and Synaspismos called for the preservation of welfare provisions and for a higher productivity in the public sector . |
5 | Padraig Flynn , the Irish Environment Minister , called for the closure of the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield , on the north-west coast of England , and Norway , Sweden and Denmark called for the plans for another such plant at Dounreay in Scotland be cancelled . |
6 | Brazil called it a step backward in international relations and Mexico called for an immediate cessation of hostilities . |
7 | A group of lawyers from Britain and Europe called for a judicial inquiry into allegations of collusion between loyalist paramilitaries and the security forces in Northern Ireland . |
8 | On the same day , Italy and Austria called for a meeting of the Conflict Prevention Centre of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe [ see also p. 38314 ] ; the EC 's European Parliament called for an immediate meeting of CSCE foreign ministers ; and German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher proposed invocation of the CSCE emergency procedure agreed the previous week . |
9 | Following a meeting on May 19 with Chinese Premier Li Peng , both India and China called for the peaceful resolution of their long-running border dispute [ for December 1991 talks see p. 38683 ] . |
10 | Over the next few days , said Mr Curtis , Guppy and Marsh called on many Fifth Avenue gem dealers , including Tiffany 's . |